School: Cléireacháin, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Ballyclerahan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: James Bates
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 124
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- (continued from previous page)19. What runs and has no legs? (Water).
20. What is always behind time? (The back of a clock.)
21. My hands are black, my face is white.
I am always going day and night,
I am very useful, as you can see,
For everyone looks up at me. (A clock.)
22. What makes a pair of boots? (Two boots).
23. What is like the half of the moon? (The other half.)
24. Black and white, and read all over. (A paper.)
25. What would make more noise outside a gate than one pig? (Two pigs)
26. Why does a horse leap over a ditch? (Because he couldn't leap under it.)
27. When is a knife [?]? (When it cuts a cake.)
28. What is the most dangerous time of the year? (When the trees are -shooting and the bull-rushes out.)
29. What part of a fish is liquid measure? (The Gill.)(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Bates
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Ballyclerahan, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Bates
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Ballyclerahan, Co. Tipperary
